A last line of defence against "superbugs" are the vancomycin group antibiotics. This review describes the determination of their mode of action, and a mechanism of resistance to them. Remarkably, this mechanism of resistance can be overcome without directly modifying the binding site of the antibiotics for the cell-wall precursors of pathogenic bacteria.
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